What Makes BuzzFeed Quizzes So Popular? – Business 2 Community
It’s 2:00pm in the afternoon. Lunch was just over an hour ago and you still have a couple of hours until you get off work. You check your inbox to find that there are no new emails for you to respond to, so you open…
How to Leverage Social Media for SEO: Link Building – Marketing Land
I recently asked a room of experienced marketers how they thought social media marketing could assist their SEO efforts. The answers were more or less what I had expected to hear: Social media helps foster relationships, which in turn helps build links and improves rankings….
5 Features For a Stellar Social Media Strategy with BuzzBundle – Search Engine Journal
This is a sponsored post for BuzzBundle. If you are part of a small social team or doing it on your own, you know social media planning can be a major time suck. By the time you research content, write quality content, develop a sharing plan,…
Study Shows Retailers Use Marketplaces to Acquire New Customers … – EcommerceBytes
Retailers rank online marketplaces fifth for effectiveness among customer acquisition tools and allocate 16% of their digital marketing budgets to online marketplace initiatives and operations, according to a new Shop.org report conducted by Forrester Research and Bizrate Insights. Results of “The State of Retailing Online…
34 Compelling Content Marketing Stats and Facts – Business 2 Community
Content marketing is now ubiquitous, with 93% of all marketers saying they do content marketing (it’s not clear what the other 7% are doing). But with so much content being produced, distributed and shared, how do you make your efforts stand out and grab the…
Snapchat, Ello, Yo!: How to Determine Your Brand’s Best Bet for Social Success – Business 2 Community
In today’s competitive retail environment, business owners have no time to waste on the marketing that will help raise awareness, increase sales and grow their business. The average business owner spends 20 hours each week on marketing, and the channels to invest in are endless….
Are Marketers Keeping Up With Evolving Buyer Behavior? – Business 2 Community
This screenshot from Shar VanBoskirk’s presentation deck offers stark truths about how we make decisions. Are marketers staking too much on their perceptions of their buyers’ journeys? Recent research from Forrester and Google suggests that buying behaviors are changing dramatically, throwing many marketing assumptions into…
Top 10 marketing trends you need to know – Marketing Dive
2015 has been all about social, mobile, video and more. With the better part of 2015 behind them, digital marketers continue to shift their attention (and budget dollars) towards mobile, video, and social media. Marketers this year have experienced a flood of real-time data, welcomed a slew of…